April 2021

Heroku Postgres | Heroku Dev Center
How to share a postgres database between two separate Heroku applications!
Comparison of Ruby and Python's Pandas for Data refinement | Zonov.me
Not sure if it's any good. I was just looking for a Ruby counterpart to Pandas. So far I found this and the other link I posted.
Regexper
Regular expression visualizer using railroad diagrams
Regular expression visualizer using railroad diagrams. What are railroad diagrams???

Octopus vs Makara : Read-write adapters for ActiveRecord | The Wisdom Tree
Most of the web applications these days use database replication for their database setup. This involves a master database and multiple replicas known as slaves. The master database and the slaves …

Micromessaging: Connecting Heroku Microservices w/Redis and RabbitMQ
A brief article explaining different architectures for Microservices on Heroku. Really good!

Debug with Metaprogramming in Ruby – benjamin roth – Medium
Pretty advanced ideas but an interesting read.

Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming – Charles Scalfani – Medium
I’ve been programming in Object Oriented languages for decades. The first OO language I used was C++ and then Smalltalk and finally .NET…

Why so many data scientists are leaving their jobs – Towards Data Science
About all the frustration in actually doing this job.

Ruby Required, Default and Optional Parameters – podiihq – Medium
Just some useful reminders on something I always have to look up again!

Rails on Docker – Nimbl3 – Medium
How we use Docker for Ruby on Rails projects in development, test and production environments

Introduction to Bayesian Linear Regression – Towards Data Science
Good primer on different ways of computing a regression.

Separating Data and Code in Rails Architecture – Root Engineering – Medium
The backend platform that powers Root is a Rails application. It’s comprised of 65k lines of Ruby application code and 135k lines of test…

Build a Text Classification Program: An NLP Tutorial
A little difficult but one can follow and try this out.

Where are they now? Revisiting Ruby 2.3 goodies – Tom Dracz – Medium
Digging at lonely operator
Elapsed time with Ruby, the right way
Esoteric details about time in ruby!

JupyterLab is Ready for Users – Jupyter Blog
We are proud to announce the beta release series of JupyterLab, the next-generation web-based interface for Project Jupyter.

Ten Machine Learning Algorithms You Should Know to Become a Data Scientist
A really nice survey of ml algorithms, tutorials and libraries

Switching from Java to Kotlin: 5 exciting features for Android Developers
Everyone must learn Kotlin, immediately!
How to avoid making your microservices too small: An interview with Darby Frey
The title says it all. Seems like the bane of service architecture is the scope